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jueves, 12 de diciembre de 2013

Z Fish Report (12/12/13)

With the 85° blue water on the beach, our fishing has
improved again this week.

The shrimp boats are back, and for the same reasons the
humpback whales come here each winter. To feed on the
abundance of shrimp which move into the shallow waters

Offshore –
To catch caught 3-4 sailfish per boat per day, and raising another 3 to 4 to
the spread is realistic. Plus, a few striped marlin are showing up, and the
dorado continue to race into the trolled lures, make a swipe and then keep going.
Sometimes they get hooked, and sometimes not.

“Flip” Himmeireich of Spokane, WA held his annual 2 day
small tournament this last week and this is what he emailed to me:

The bad news is that
only 6 anglers on 3 boats participated this year, the good news is that we had
some of the best fishing in our 8 year history. The winning team, comprised of
Paul Phillips and Dorris Alexander from Kelowna, BC., caught 7 sailfish, 2 dorado, and 1 striped Marlin. Coming in a close 2nd
was the mid-west team of Charlie Stirling and Don Bone with 8 sailfish and 1
dorado. In third place, with a
total that would have won in the several years past, was the team representing
the Pacific Northwest of Fred Preston and Flip Himmelreich with 7 sailfish.

Margaret from Florida with one of two released sailfish, plus they also got
huge dorado while fishing on the super panga Gitana with Santiago

The total for the 2
day tournament was 26 big game fish! All billfish were tagged with
NOAA tags and released with the exception of 1 sailfish.

Obviously the efforts
to curtail the “long liners” has had a very positive effect on the sport
fishing in this area. KUDU’s again to the tireless efforts of those
involved. We can’t wait for next year!

Dee Bulkley with her captain Francisco on the super panga Huntress, with
one of 5 releases.

Charlie Sterling and Dan Boone on the super panga Gitana. Note the tag

Jordan Krage from St. Louis on the super panga HuntressThe inshore action has increased for all species, except the roosterfish.
It looks like the majority of the roosters have headed south for the winter. We
have now flailed the water on 3 different days down at Puerto Vicente Guerrero
and have yet to get a hook up on the fly rod. We have seen a few roosters, but
not enough to warrant targeting them, when there are so many jack crevalle, sierras,
and black skipjack available for the light line spin or fly rod fisherman.

Chris Morrison of Seattle,
fishing with Adolfo and the panga Dos Hermanos for 10 days straight, has been
going up north to Saladita, the Union river bar, and the Ranch, and doing
excellent on sierras, several jack crevalle, and are averaging about 1
roosterfish a day. They did manage to get a 45 pound rooster on one of the
days.